The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.